US3273201A - Feed screw for extrusion press - Google Patents

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US3273201A
US3273201A US467439A US46743965A US3273201A US 3273201 A US3273201 A US 3273201A US 467439 A US467439 A US 467439A US 46743965 A US46743965 A US 46743965A US 3273201 A US3273201 A US 3273201A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C48/25—Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations
    • B29C48/36—Means for plasticising or homogenising the moulding material or forcing it through the nozzle or die
    • B29C48/50—Details of extruders
    • B29C48/505—Screws
    • B29C48/59—Screws characterised by details of the thread, i.e. the shape of a single thread of the material-feeding screw
    • B29C48/605—Screws characterised by details of the thread, i.e. the shape of a single thread of the material-feeding screw the thread being discontinuous
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C48/03—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor characterised by the shape of the extruded material at extrusion

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  • My present invention relates to a feed screw designed to advance a plastified resinous material from an inlet to an outlet or nozzle of an extrusion press.
  • An object of this invention is to provide an improved feed screw for the purpose set forth which avoids such stratification and insures thorough mastication of a plastified mass and substantially uniform movement thereof toward an extrusion nozzle.
  • This object is realized, in accordance with my present invention, by a subdivision of the thread or threads of a feed screw into a plurality of peripherally olfset sections with spacedly overlapping ends, the latter extending at least to and preferably through a common plane transverse to the axis of the substantially cylindrical screw body.
  • This overlap insures that the discontinuous thread sections follow one another without axial separation so that there will be no point along the periphery of the screw where a portion of the moldable mass could remain stationary without being swept along by the leading edge of the thread.
  • the spacing of the overlapping ends of successive thread sections represents, advantageously, but a small fraction of the spacing of adjacent turns of the thread on either side of the aforementioned transverse plane.
  • two overlapping ends define a narrow gap bounded by the leading edge of the inlet-side thread section and the trailing edge of the nozzle-side thread section through which the advancing particles are transferred from a location adjacent the leading edge of the former to a location next to the trailing edge of the latter.
  • the crosssection of this gap should be constant, or divergent in the direction of advance; the latter situation will exist when the pitch angle of the inlet-side thread section is larger than that of the nozzle-side thread section.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates, in longitudinal section, an extruder housing containing a feed screw according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is an elevational view of a modified feed screw adapted to be used in the housing of FIG. 1.
  • the extruder shown in FIG. 1 comprises a generally cylindrical housing 10 having disposed therein a feed screw 11 with a projecting shaft 13 which is continuously rotated, in the direction of the arrow, by a drive motor or other power source not illustrated.
  • Screw 11 has a cylindrical body 12 formed with an external helical thread which contacts the inner housing wall, this thread being 3,273,201 Patented Sept. 20, 1966 axially subdivided into sections 12a and 12b with overlapping ends 12c and 12d.
  • the spacing s of the overlapping ends, measured transversely to the turns of the thread, is substantially less than half the spacing S of adjacent turns.
  • Housing 10 is shown provided with an inlet 14 for plasti fia ble resinous material, e.g. in granular form, at one end and with an extrusion nozzle 15 at the opposite end.
  • the material introduced via a hopper 1 6 into the inlet 14 is thoroughly worked and leaves the nozzle 15 as a substantially homogeneous mass.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a modified feed screw 111 consisting of two rigidly interconnected body portions 112', 1.12" with respective multiple thread sections 112a, 1121: thereon.
  • the overlapping ends 1 12c, 112d of these sections extend only to a common plane P, i.e. the plane of contact of the two body sections 112, 112".
  • the thread sections 112a are shown to have a pitch angle (p' which is somewhat greater than the pitch angle 0" of thread sections 11% whereby the gaps formed between the overlapping ends 1120 and 112d diverge in the direction of advance.
  • feed screws according to my invention could also have more than two peripherally offset thread sections for even more thorough homogenization of the plastic material; the gaps between their overlapping ends may be of constant width as in FIG. 1, or divergent as in FIG. 2, and the number of interleaved threads on any one section of the screw body may also be varied at will.
  • a feed screw for delivering plastified resinous material to the nozzle of an extrusion press comprising a substantially cylindrical body provided with at least one external helicoidal thread, said thread .being split longitudinally into a plurality of peripherally offset sections with spacedly overlapping ends, said overlapping ends extending at least to a common plane transverse to the axis of said body.
  • An extruder comprising a substantially cylindrical housing having at one end an inlet for plasti'fiable resinous material and at the other end an extrusion nozzle for said material; at least one feed screw in said housing extending from said inlet toward said nozzle, said feed screw comprising a substantially cylindrical body with at least one external helicoidal thread, said thread being split longitudinally into a plurality of peripherally off-set sections with spacedly overlapping ends, said overlapping end-s extending at least to a common plane transverse to the axis of said body; and means for rotating said feed screw in a sense to advance said resinous material from said inlet toward said nozzle.
  • a feed screw for delivering plastified resinous nla- 2,896,253 7/1959 M01 18-12 terial to the nozzle of an extrusion press comprising a 5 3,160,916 12/1964 18 12 substantially cylindrical body provided with at least one external helicoidal thread, said thread being split longi- FOREIGN PATENTS tudrnally into a plurality of peripherally oifset sections 1,142,059 1/1963 Germany of substantially identical pitch angle go with sp-acedly overlapping ends separated by a distance s, the extent I 10 WILLIAM J. STEPHENSON Primary of the overlap satisfying the relationship lgscot (p.

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US3913897A (en) * 1972-11-21 1975-10-21 Krauss Maffei Ag Single-thread feed screw for extruders and the like
US3981658A (en) * 1972-01-14 1976-09-21 International Basic Economy Corporation Screw type apparatus for drying moist polymeric materials
US4007545A (en) * 1972-01-14 1977-02-15 International Basic Economy Corporation Method for adjusting temperature and pressure of a fluid
EP1308262A1 (de) * 2001-10-31 2003-05-07 Krauss-Maffei Kunststofftechnik GmbH Extrusionsschnecke
WO2004030893A1 (de) * 2002-09-27 2004-04-15 Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft Mbh Plastizierschnecke für einen extruder oder eine strangpresse mit im übergang dünnerer stegbreite

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US2896253A (en) * 1957-01-17 1959-07-28 Du Pont Screw for handling thermoplastic resins
DE1142059B (de) * 1958-04-18 1963-01-03 Hackethal Draht & Kabelwerk Ag Schneckenpresse zum Verarbeiten, insbesondere zum Strangpressen, thermoplastischer Kunststoffe
US3160916A (en) * 1962-03-12 1964-12-15 Du Pont Extruder screw

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US2896253A (en) * 1957-01-17 1959-07-28 Du Pont Screw for handling thermoplastic resins
DE1142059B (de) * 1958-04-18 1963-01-03 Hackethal Draht & Kabelwerk Ag Schneckenpresse zum Verarbeiten, insbesondere zum Strangpressen, thermoplastischer Kunststoffe
US3160916A (en) * 1962-03-12 1964-12-15 Du Pont Extruder screw

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3981658A (en) * 1972-01-14 1976-09-21 International Basic Economy Corporation Screw type apparatus for drying moist polymeric materials
US4007545A (en) * 1972-01-14 1977-02-15 International Basic Economy Corporation Method for adjusting temperature and pressure of a fluid
US3913897A (en) * 1972-11-21 1975-10-21 Krauss Maffei Ag Single-thread feed screw for extruders and the like
EP1308262A1 (de) * 2001-10-31 2003-05-07 Krauss-Maffei Kunststofftechnik GmbH Extrusionsschnecke
WO2004030893A1 (de) * 2002-09-27 2004-04-15 Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft Mbh Plastizierschnecke für einen extruder oder eine strangpresse mit im übergang dünnerer stegbreite
US20060023565A1 (en) * 2002-09-27 2006-02-02 Friedrich Mueller Plastifying screw for an extruder or a forcing machine, having a narrower thread width in the tansition region
US7329037B2 (en) 2002-09-27 2008-02-12 Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft Mbh Plasticating screw for an extruder or extrusion press, having a narrower land width in the transition region

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